A hypothetical European Minimum Wage (MW) set at 60 percent of each country's median wage would reduce in-work poverty … but have limited effects on overall poverty, as many poor households do not earn a wage near MW and higher unemployment …

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create …

decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage … than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre … ended in late 2020. The challenge will be to avoid a sharp increase in poverty and inequality if the labor market does not …

, which be associated with an increase in poverty of about 75 million people. Policy responses more effective than those in …

education expenditure can be effective for poverty alleviation …